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James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader. Considered by music authorities as the founder of Western swing, [1] [2] [3] he was known widely as the King of Western Swing (although Spade Cooley self-promoted the moniker "King of Western Swing" from 1942 to 1969).
David Stout Stogner (May 15, 1920 – May 17, 1989) was an American musician, who was one of the premier Western swing musicians playing on the West Coast. Known as the "West Coast King of Western Swing", Stogner moved to California to pursue a musical career with the encouragement from fellow Texan, Milton Brown.
Billed as Spade Cooley and His Western Dance Gang, he was featured in the soundie Take Me Back To Tulsa released July 31, 1944, along with Williams and Carolina Cotton. [13] Corrine, Corrina was released August 28, 1944 minus Cotton. [14] The film short Spade Cooley: King of Western Swing was filmed in May 1945 and released September 1, 1945. [15]
Western swing is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands. [1] [2] It is dance music, often with an up-tempo beat, [3] [4] which attracted huge crowds to dance halls and clubs in Texas, Oklahoma and California during the 1930s and 1940s until a federal war-time nightclub tax in 1944 contributed to the ...
Henry William Thompson (September 3, 1925 – November 6, 2007) [1] was an American country music singer-songwriter and musician whose career spanned seven decades.. Thompson's musical style, characterized as honky-tonk Western swing, was a mixture of fiddles, electric guitar, and steel guitar that featured his distinctive, smooth baritone vocals.
The Jazz of the Southwest: An Oral History of Western Swing. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-78321-8. Townsend, Charles R. (1986). San Antonio Rose : the life and music of Bob Wills. Internet Archive. Urbana : University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-01362-1
Tobacco State Swing (Rambler RR-103, 1980) Hollywood Western Swing: The Best of Hank Penny 1944-1947 (Krazy Kat KK CD-25, 1999) Crazy Rhythm: The Standard Transcriptions (1951) (Bloodshot Revival BS-806, 2000) The Penny Opus #1 (Jasmine JASMCD-3520, 2000) Hillbilly Be-Bop: The King Anthology 1944-1950 (Westside WESA-914, 2001)
Westerns swing originated in the 1920s and 1930s; small towns in the US Southwest. Although sometimes subject to the term "Texas swing" it is widely associated with Tulsa, [1] others contend that "Western Swing music finds deep roots in the dust bowl of Oklahoma", [2] and its influences include jazz from the major urban centers of the United States.